Time 4 Rights holds letter-writing event

A pair of Time 4 Rights supporters sign postcards addressed to Justice Minister Gord Wyant advocating for the Sask Party government to amend the Human Rights Code to explicitly extend protections to trans* people in Saskatchewan.

"It's really nice to see allies making themselves visible, and I think Time 4 Rights gives them an opportunity to do that," Wickenhauser said.

"Our (Facebook) page has grown to 750 or 800 likes, and we have more than 300 photos with maybe 500 people in them. It's very nice, and it's really good to show the support in the community that is saying, 'We accept trans* people here, and gender expression and identity are things we really want to see in the Human Rights Code.'"

Wickenhauser was at the cafe, encouraging people to sign postcards addressed to Gord Wyant, Saskatchewan's minister of justice, to encourage him to take action and amend the province's Human Rights Code to clearly extend the same protections to the trans* community that are afforded to other groups.

"Currently, there's five provinces and one territory in Canada that have explicit protections for either gender expression, gender identity, or both," he said.

"There has been some discussion between the trans* community and the government about why they have so far decided not to include (those protections). This past November, the government again rejected a petition … which had over 1,000 names.

"The Time 4 Rights campaign is a way to put a face to those names, and raise awareness in a way that a petition can't," Wickenhauser added. "It starts with this. It starts with saying, 'These people are protected,' in no ambiguous terms, right in the Human Rights Code."

The group is holding a rally in Regina at the Legislature on Saturday at 2 p.m.

A pair of Time 4 Rights supporters sign postcards addressed to Justice Minister Gord Wyant advocating for the Sask Party government to amend the Human Rights Code to explicitly extend protections to trans* people in Saskatchewan.